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Alfred Henry Lewis. Peggy O'Neal
Peggy O'Neal
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PREFACE
PEGGY O'NEAL
CHAPTER I—THE LUSTROUS PEG O'NEAL
CHAPTER II—PORT WINE DUFF AND PIGEON-BREAST
CHAPTER III—PEG'S MEETING WITH THE MAJOR
CHAPTER IV—THE JEW AND HIS SPANISH SWORD
CHAPTER V—REVEREND CAMPBELL AND THE MAGPIE
CHAPTER VI—THE STORM GATHERS AGAINST PEG
CHAPTER VII—THE SECRETARY, SUAVE AS CREAM
CHAPTER VIII—THE MAD CAPRICIOUS PEG
CHAPTER IX—THE GENERAL SELECTS HIS SUCCESSOR
CHAPTER X—THE MAJOR AND PEG AT CROSSES
CHAPTER XI—THE GENERAL MAKES PROVERBS
CHAPTER XII—HOW PEG WOULD WEAR THE CORAL
CHAPTER XIII—THE SON OF THE SPANISH BULL-FIGHTER
CHAPTER XIV.—THE FEDERAL UNION: IT MUST BE PRESERVED
CHAPTER XV—HOW PEG WAS SAVED FROM PEG
CHAPTER XVI.—LOVE'S FUNERAL IN THE SNOW
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Alfred Henry Lewis
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The General for ten full minutes smoked up and down, I silent, and the room otherwise still save for the tick-ticking of the clock. At last he spoke smilingly and off to one side.
“You remember that sagacious doctor who was yesterday called from Baltimore to amend me after my journey? 'I'll do anything you say,' I told him, 'save give up coffee and tobacco.' 'Then you'll die,' he retorted, 'since it is coffee and tobacco which are killing you.' 'Then I'll die,' I replied, 'since coffee and tobacco are all that are left worth living for.' He quit the place in a fury of heat, did that doctor.”
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